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Glenwhappen Rig
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3684
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3684 (3684)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tweedsmuir
- National Grid reference
- NT 0671 2290
- Latitude
- 55.49100
- Longitude
- -3.47805
- Altitude
- 343 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.24 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- palisade
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1960); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1974); Other (1976); Other (1994)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3865
- HER
- Scottish Borders 48558
- National record
- record NT 02 SE 40; monument 48558
- Wikidata
- Q31106783
Sources
References
- RCAHMS (1967) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Peeblesshire: an inventory of the ancient monuments, 2v. HMSO: Edinburgh